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threadbare

 adjective
     
thread‧bare
1 clothes, carpets etc that are threadbare are very thin and in bad condition because they have been used a lot:
a threadbare old sofa
2

threadbare excuse/argument/joke etc

an excuse etc that is no longer effective because it has been used too much
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